From: Richard Conroy Date: 2006-09-13T02:09:25+09:00 Subject: Re: Browser applications (applets, flash...) with Ruby? On 9/12/06, francis.rammeloo@gmail.com wrote: > Thank you all. I would like to write some games like Tetris and post > them on my website. It's a bit frustrating that I have no other choices > but Java and Flash. (Oh and yes I've seen a Tetris written in > Javascript, but it's still too limited I think.) Well in those respects, your Java & Flash content is effectively static content unless you are doing interesting things like recording high scores. For interactive content online, Java & flash are probably the primary development languages. For games that don't require real-time control you can probably use Rails + AJAX, and down the road yuu might be able to use SVG too. > Do you think this will become easier in the future? Maybe there will be > a sort of universal VM for running browser applications and that all > programming languages can compile to. Is there anything going on that > points in that direction? One True Language-ism is dead. While you could do some funky .NET stuff to get One True Binary at least, it probably would be overkill.